Alacriti Launches Nationwide Masterclass Roadshow for Financial Institutions To Chart Future-Ready Payments Strategies

Knowledge-Sharing Sessions Help Financial Institutions Build Strategy for Payments Infrastructure Modernization, Instant Payments, and Digital Money

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Sept. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alacriti, a leading provider of cloud-based payment technology and money movement solutions, is launching a series of masterclasses across the United States. The series, “From Instant Payments to Digital Money: Creating Your Payments Roadmap,” is hosted in partnership with Wespay, UMACHA, PaymentsFirst, and EPCOR. 

Each session features payments industry expert Mark Majeske, senior vice president of faster payments at Alacriti, alongside speakers from Visa, the Federal Reserve, and The Clearing House. The masterclasses are designed for professionals, such as payments executives and product leaders at financial institutions, advancing their instant payments and payment innovation strategies.

The masterclass series helps financial institutions build on their investments in instant payments while preparing for stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and the next generation of money movement. Attendees will see the results of exclusive Alacriti data analysis on instant payment adoption trends, transaction patterns, and emerging use cases. The curriculum covers today's leading payment rails—e.g., the RTP^® network, the FedNow^® Service, Visa Direct, Zelle^®, cross-border, and digital money—providing guidance on orchestrating payments and aligning rail investments. Classes will feature real-world case studies highlighting successful use cases, implementation lessons, and common pitfalls. 

"Every payments decision a financial institution makes today determines what's possible tomorrow," said Majeske. "The challenge is that you've got instant payments, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits all emerging at once. Alacriti built its entire platform around helping financial institutions navigate this complexity in real time. Our masterclasses are an extension of our mission to educate the financial institution market on the future of payments, and help them  make confident decisions about the future."

Masterclass Schedule:

• Wespay Payments Symposium – Sept. 11, Las Vegas | Jakub Petri (Visa), Dan Gonzalez (Federal Reserve), Keith Gray (The Clearing House)
• UMACHA Navigating Payments Conference – Sept. 23, Brooklyn Center, MN | Emily Braziel (Royal Credit Union)
• PaymentsFirst Solutions Payments Conference – Sept. 28, Middleton, WI |
• EPCOR Paymentspalooza – Nov. 2, Kansas City, KS | Kris Varma (Visa), Dan Gonzalez (Federal Reserve), Steve Douglass (The Clearing House)

The series kicked off in August with a virtual session in partnership with Southern Financial Exchange, featuring Brad Nightengale (Visa), Dan Gonzalez (Federal Reserve), and Rusiru Gunasena (The Clearing House).

Attendees will also earn Continuing Education Credits. Registration information for each session is available at alacriti.com/payments-strategy-masterclass-roadshow/ 

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About Alacriti
Alacriti is a leading payments-focused fintech helping financial institutions and businesses modernize and scale payments infrastructure. Its cloud-based Orbipay platform connects and orchestrates transactions across the RTP^® network, FedNow^® Service, Zelle^®, Fedwire^® Funds Service, ACH, Visa Direct, and Stablecoins—giving organizations a single platform for the full range of money movement needs. Clients can progressively modernize without rip-and-replace projects, launch new payment capabilities faster, and centralize payment operations, fraud prevention, and compliance controls. Alacriti serves 14 of the top 100 U.S. financial institutions and nearly one-quarter of U.S. credit unions with more than $1 billion in assets, processing $233 billion in payments annually. Named on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list as one of America's fastest-growing private companies, Alacriti is helping shape the future of payments and money movement. Learn more at Alacriti.com. 

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Kristen Jason
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